LAB LEAK

/s

lol I feel like I’m living in a different planet. I’ve got leather loafers. I just pull the on with my finger—never considered they a tn be a problem. Boots, umm, have laces. I also wear sneakers—the only ones that have a crumpled back are those that I’ve knowingly abused by making them effectively slip ons (not untying the laces).

WTF is going on here??? I have literally NEVER known of or heard of anyone using a shoehorn. Even my grandparents. I live in the US. Is this maybe a niche thing in some other country???

While I agree that the fingerprinting data is interesting, on iOS, TikTok doesn’t require any of those permissions as indicated. Some of the articles state that they are required, but they aren’t. As far as I know it isn’t possible, without a zero day of some sort, to access camera, sound, contacts, etc without explicitly granting those permissions.

That said, that is a lot of data, and for those that can be linked back to an individual. And I’m sure most people are less careful with permissions. The fingerprinting data is clearly powerful, and I find it extremely fascinating, since there is VERY limited input and such effective output.

Sources on any of this? Perhaps it works differently on Android.

The main thing which you miss though is that it has “the algorithm” down pat. While it knows I’ll watch cooking videos and videos of people yelling at cops, it doesn’t bother trying to show me things about Trump, etc. it is keeping me in my own custom echo chamber. I have no idea how it works so well.

Now imagine someone hell bent on believing things like the pizza molester stories or Jan 6th alt histories. This is a very effective tool for radicalizing people and reinforcing the “truth” they already suspect. It’s easier to divide people based on preconceived notions than trying to convince people of something new.

But I’ve seen everything anyway. And I get on my bike and I ride off. On the grass.

Remote work situation is night and day what it was in many places since 2021

lol, what world are you living in? Yes, it’s better than retail, but for high skill jobs (which the government desperately needs) these things are not true.

• Random layoffs—sure, as long as you’re the right kind of employee
• Vacation is accumulated at an embarrassingly slow rate, especially for newer employees.
• pension. Right, but there are similarly no stock options or significant performance bonuses you find in the private sector
• you’d be surprised at the work schedules for government employees who aren’t admin assistants

Pay is so far behind still it isn’t funny.

Those are all part of the executive branch, and are subject to the executive.

I used AirHub app recently traveling from the US to Europe, and it worked great. I’m not sure about long term use, probably expensive then, but for a couple of weeks it was brilliant.

That album he did with Ben Folds was truly a great one.

They do different things. Microblog/follow people vs discussion forum/follow topics. Just because they share a protocol doesn’t mean it’s compatible at a practical or desirable level. I wouldn’t want microblogging coming to Lemmy personally.

Ok now do this one. What color is the donut country?

Missing the swastika too

I’ve been wondering about that too. Specifically how long can old posts persist, and how long are instances compelled to host older content especially from other servers.

Underrated

Yep. Totally got to watch that upgrade button!

Wefwef seems to be having trouble at the moment. Posting this from Mlem. Slowly though.

Wefwef seems to be having trouble at the moment. Posting this from Mlem

Agreed. Thanks for letting us nerd out